Ramifications of changing "numvcpus" parameter on a guest
I have a guest machine(Windows 2003) that has the "numvcpus" parameter set to 2 in the VMX file. The host has 2 - Xeon HT procs, and i am runing 3 VMs currently on it. From reading through the forums i...
View Articlevmware server nat on 1and1.co.uk dedicated servers.
sorry for the length of text on my problem, but i've tried to be fairly detailed ...please read on: 1and1.co.uk sell dedicated online servers. i purchased one of these with 2 ip address's with the...
View ArticleBridged networking just quit!
All: I've found several threads on this with no real resolutions, so I'm posting this in the hopes someone has since found a resolution and can share it...or that VMWare has found the bug and fixed it....
View ArticleInstall steps for VmWare on CentOS 4.5
Does anyone have the installation steps they succussfully used to fully install (all options, etc.) CentOS and VmWare Server? Is there a good generic read on this somewhere? Thanks!
View ArticleDefault settings for VMnet1 and VMnet8 network adapters?
Hello, today i reconfigured my VMnet1 and VMnet8 network connections within WIN network environments to get everything by DHCP. I don't remember the static IP addresses these adapters had before. How...
View ArticleSCO OpenServer Guest fails to communicate with modem over serial port
We recently migrated a legacy computer running SCO OS 5.0.6 to a VM (on a VMWare Server 1.0.3 Windows 2003 x86 Host w an AMD Athlon x64 dual core CPU) using Rato’s procedure outlined in...
View Articletroulbe loading video card driver in windows 2000 sp4
Host: rhel 4 update 5 (dell optiplex 745 with GMA3000 intigrated vido card)gues: windows 2000 sp 4 I converted a physical system running windows 2000 sp 4 using converter 3.0.1 with no errors. I moved...
View ArticleMinimum Server OS requirements?
Does anyone have a listing of what the minimum server OS requirements are for installing VMware Server on a Linux host? By minimum server OS requirements I mean what is the bare minimum packages that...
View ArticleDoes VMWare Server support Windows CE guests ?
Does VMWare server support Windows CE guests ? I apologise if this has already been addressed in another thread.
View ArticleEvent ID 1023 recorded in application log every second.
I have just installed VMware server in Windows 2003 server but am now seeing the folowing error in the application log every second. Anyone know what this is and how I can stop it? Event Type:...
View ArticleVmx ownership on linux hosts
Hi , I found that a VM does not start if the ownership of the .vmx file is not "root" . Is this normal ? Is there something that can be done to have the VM started if the .vmx ownership is of some...
View ArticleGuest OS' clock runs too fast
I have looked for solutions for this problem, but haven't found one that works for this system. Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated. The clock of the guest OS runs around 1.5x faster than...
View Articleduplicate address detected with Linux host/guest
Hi all, i've got this question for you: I have VMware server 1.0.4 and a number of linux and windows VMs on it. Everytime I start networking on linux machines, I get "duplicate address detected"...
View ArticleHow do I increase the size/merge the partition of the VM hard disk?
Hello: I created a VM for the development team at my company but when it was created it was completed with an 8.0Gb hard disk and they would like to increase it to at least 100Gb. I was able to do...
View ArticleVery slow performance / frequent freezes of VMs both in VMware Server and...
Hi there! I'm running 2 VMs on VMware Server 1.0.4, which in turn is running on a Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 32 bit, all patches and SPs. One VM is Windows Server 2003 SP2, the other Windows Server...
View ArticleCan't Start Guests on a Dell Poweredge 1955 1.0.4 + 1.0.3
This week I've been having a nightmare trying to get vmware working on a dell 1955. windows 2003 ent, sp2.I've tried both 64 and 32 bit installations I get "could not start vm." clean install,...
View ArticleProblem setting up shared disk
I'm having problems setting up shared disk for clustering My configuration is:Host OS: CentOS 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 vmware server 1.0.4 build-56528 When I add scsi1.sharedBus = "virtual" , the virtual...
View ArticleVMServer Beta 2 running on Linux and GUI-console
hi, I wonder if there is, or will be any version of the GUI (non-web) console to use on Linux.If this is not the case I'd like you all to know that I'm very sad, and I also have a queation: How can I...
View Articlevmware-mount problem
Hello everybody, i get the following error when i try to run the command "vmware-mount" (even without any options): vmware-mount: error while loading shared libraries: libfuse.so.2: cannot open...
View ArticleInstalling APC PowerChute Network Shutdown agent on Linux Host running VMware...
I have installed the agent (v 2.2.3) but when I run the configure script: root@linvmhost2:/opt/APC/PowerChute/group1# ./PCNSConfig.shThis product does not support VMware. Any way around this? The...
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